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1. A light touch or stroke.
4. Any of various plants of the genus Scabiosa.
12. The elementary stages of any subject (usually plural).
15. Title for a civil or military leader (especially in Turkey).
16. Pronounce with a lowered velum.
17. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary.
18. The month following January and preceding March.
19. Genus of evergreen trees or shrubs with white funnel-shaped flowers and milky sap.
20. (computer science) A coding system that incorporates extra parity bits in order to detect errors.
21. Large widely distributed genus of perennial herbs or shrubs or subshrubs.
23. Genus of tropical plants with creeping rootstocks and small umbellate flowers.
25. Noisy quarrel.
28. Extremely robust.
31. Type genus of the Nepidae.
33. A Tibetan or Mongolian priest of Lamaism.
36. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring in the air.
37. (old-fashioned) At or from or to a great distance.
41. Slightly open.
42. (used of count nouns) Every one considered individually.
45. A great raja.
47. Informal terms for a mother.
49. A reptile genus of Iguanidae.
50. A loose sleeveless outer garment made from aba cloth.
51. A very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms.
52. A seal (especially one used to mark documents officially).
56. A percussion instrument consisting of a pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usually held between the thumb and fingers) that are made to click together (as by Spanish dancers) in rhythm with the dance.
57. A river of southwestern Africa that rises in central Angola and flows east and then north (forming part of the border between Angola and Congo) and continuing northwest through Congo to empty into the Congo River on the border between Congo and Republic of the Congo.
60. Black tropical American cuckoo.
61. A nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug (trade name Naprosyn) used in the treatment of arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation and moderate pain.
65. Hard to endure.
70. Fleshy and usually brightly colored cover of some seeds that develops from the ovule stalk and partially or entirely envelopes the seed.
71. A pause or interruption (as in a conversation).
74. The cry made by sheep.
75. A South American shrub whose leaves are chewed by natives of the Andes.
76. Relieve oneself of troubling information.
77. A run that is the result of the batter's performance.
78. Strike sharply.
79. South African statesman who was released from prison to become the nation's first democratically elected president in 1994 (born in 1918).
80. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray color.
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1. Informal or slang terms for mentally irregular.
2. American novelist (1909-1955).
3. Used as a Hindi courtesy title.
4. Make off with belongings of others.
5. The civil and religious leader of a Muslim state.
6. An ancient Assyrian city on the River Tigris and traditional capital of Assyria.
7. An orderly assigned to serve a British military officer.
8. The United Nations agency concerned with the interests of labor.
9. Utter a high-pitched cry, characteristic of pigs.
10. A type of submachine gun that is designed and manufactured in Israel.
11. An area that includes seats for several people.
12. Any of several tall tropical palms native to southeastern Asia having egg-shaped nuts.
13. Italian lawn bowling (played on a long narrow dirt court).
14. Of or like a cecum.
22. A historical region of southwestern India on the west coast.
24. State in northeastern India.
26. Not only so, but.
27. A river in north central Switzerland that runs northeast into the Rhine.
29. The seventh month of the Moslem calendar.
30. A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in NE Nebraska.
32. The ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle.
34. Property that is leased or rented out or let.
35. A pilgrimage to Mecca.
38. All the animal life in a particular region.
39. A member of the Nahuatl people who established an empire in Mexico that was overthrown by Cortes in 1519.
40. A long noosed rope used to catch animals.
43. A telephone connection.
44. Type genus of the Amiidae.
46. (combining form) Indicating radiation or radioactivity.
48. A diuretic (trade name Osmitrol) used to promote the excretion of urine.
53. An achromatic color of any lightness between the extremes of black and white.
54. One of two flaps attached to a cap to keep the ears warm.
55. (Akkadian) God of wisdom.
58. American professional baseball player who hit more home runs than Babe Ruth (born in 1934).
59. The brightest star in Virgo.
62. Worthless people.
63. A member of an extinct North American Indian people who lived in the Pit river valley in northern California.
64. The compass point that is one point north of northeast.
66. Avatar of Vishnu.
67. A United Nations agency created to assist developing nations by loans guaranteed by member governments.
68. (Babylonian) God of wisdom and agriculture and patron of scribes and schools.
69. A quantity that is added.
72. Surface layer of ground containing a matt of grass and grass roots.
73. The act of using.
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